Incumbent

Graham Quirk (Liberal) who currently represents parts of this Ward as Councillor, but is switching to represent this new Ward after the major re-drawing of his former ward of Wishart.

Profile

Lying between Beenleigh Road and the Pacific Motorway in Brisbane's outer south-east, Macgregor Ward includes the suburbs of Robertson, Sunnybank, Macgregor, Eight Mile Plains and parts of Kuraby and Runcorn.

Redistribution

New ward created from those parts of abolished Runcorn north of the Gold Coast railway, as well as parts of the old Wishart ward south of the Pacific Motorway. Those areas in Runcorn recorded a narrow Labor majority, but the Wishart areas had a solid Liberal majority, giving the new ward an estimated Liberal margin of 7.9%.

Main Candidates

The Liberal Party's Graham Quirk has worked in banking and the government sector and was first elected to Brisbane City Council as a 27 year-old in 1985. He is currently the Chairperson of Roads, TransApex and Traffic Committee and a member of the Establishment and Coordination Committee and Public Transport Committee. In 1980 he won the Sir Robert Menzies Young Liberal of the Year award, and contested the state seat of Mount Gravatt at the 1998 state election. He resigned from a BCC Liberal cabinet in 1991 when Rochedale Tip issues affected his constituents. He may be the Deputy Lord Mayor if the Liberal Party win control of the Council. His opponents are Labor's Jacques Develder and Green Philip Machanick.